Final Ecology Review 2023

What is the carrying capacity of the graph?

• around 500

• more than 800

• less than 300

• around 700

Which of the following would INCREASE the carrying capacity of an ecosystem?

• increase in predators
• disease
• increase in available food
• drought

When death rate is equal to birth rate...

• population increases

• population decreases

• population stays the same.

• population rapidly increases then becomes stable

When birth rate is high and death rate is low...

• population increases

• population decreases

• population stays the same

• all of these

Match the following

• Parasitism

• 
• Predation

• 
• Symbiosis

• 
• Commensalism

• 

What will happen if all of the frogs in a population die?

• The frogs' predators will decrease and the frogs' prey will increase

• The frogs' predators will increase and the frogs' prey will decrease

• We better all pray because there isn't anymore frogs.

A scientist was studying a population of fish in a pond over a period of 10 years. He observed that

the population increased each year for 3 years, and then remained nearly constant for the rest of

the study. The best explanation for this observation is that the population had

• stopped reproducing

• reached carrying capacity

• mutated into a different species

• run out of food and all died

2 factors which increase population size

• Birth Rate, Immigration
• Death Rate, Immigration
• Birth Rate, Emigration
• Death Rate, Emigration

Excessive amounts of rain caused a flood in the southwest United States that resulted in substantial amounts of deaths in the rabbit population? This situation is an example of a density _____________ limiting factor.

• density-independent
• density-dependent
• density- too high
• density- too low

A lion and a cheetah attempt to occupy the same niche. The more aggressive lion survives; the cheetah does not.

• Density-Dependent: Competition

• Density-Independent: Competition

• Density-Dependent: Predator-Prey

• Density-Independent: Predator-Prey